These two plays are the second of Wellman’s award-winning quartet of plays involving, in one way or another, characters who have taken up with or have been highly influenced by birds—particularly crow
Ezra Pound's poems "A Girl" and "In a Station of the Metro"; William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow"; Gary Snyder's "By Frazier Creek Falls"; Marianne Moore's "O To Be a Dragon"; Wallace Steven
First published in 1927, this brilliant satire of the Soviet system presents three comic characters, Nikolai Kavalerov and the Babichev brothers, bumbling their way through the bureaucracy. Translated
The eighth volume of Douglas Messerli’s encyclopedic anthologies of international poetry includes twenty-one poets of renown, including Adonis, Ilse Aichinger, Dino Campana, C.P. Cavafy, Julio Cortaza
Like the 1,200-page volume of American poetry before it, From The Other Side of the Century II explores literature of the last quarter century, this time American dramatic writing, making available i
"I am always conscious of the disquieting runs of life slipping by," writes Lyn Hejinian in the Preface to this major early work of poetry. "Necessity is the limit with forgetfulness, but it remains
The Critic As Artist is one of Oscar Wilde's most well-known dialogues and, along with "The Decay of Lying," his best expression of his aesthetics.This major work is particularly interesting in the c
This book represents the script and film stills from the major silent film of Eleanor Antin's invented Soviet film director Yevgeny Antinov. Throughout her career Antin has explored various persona su
With Peter Altenberg and Hugo von Hofmansthal, Arthur Schnitzler was a major modernist of the period of Viennese intellectual activity from 1890 to 1930. Born in 1862 and trained as a physician, Schni
Stay—Douglas Messerli’s 12th book of poetry, and his first since his 2012 publication of Dark—represents work the poet, dramatist, and prose writer has written from the millennium until the present, a
The fourth volume of the ongoing PIP anthologies of world poetry presents work of 20 major international poets, including Vicente Alexiandre (Spain), Luis Cernuda (Spain), Andree Chedid (France), Oliv
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) was one of the major writers of the 20th century: a poet who turned away from poetry, and a prose writer whose great project remained unfinished at the time of her death
My Year is the title of Douglas Messerli's ongoing cultural memoirs, which began in 2000 with the turn of the 21st century. This volume covers cultural events from 2000, including essays on film, lite
In a large, isolated house near modern Quebec, eight childhood friends gather to reminisce about their early years in the 1950s. Delcourt’s beautiful novel, translated from the Quebecois French
